Saturday, September 20, 2008

Sarah Palin & The Rape Kits.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

copyranter on COILHOUSE: have you ever seen...

...a cat croissant or a hamster muffin? Welcome to the first Weekly Ad Uncoiling on Coilhouse. You are seconds away from these wacky digi-visuals, which don't sell handwash very well, but do serve as excellent examples of the over-reliance on Photoshop by today's conceptually-challenged art directors. (link)

Monday, September 15, 2008

copyranter uncoils on COILHOUSE.

Starting later this week and continuing for a few weeks, I will be posting on L.A.-based Coilhouse magazine + blog—"a love letter to alternative culture written in an era where alt culture no longer exists." The column will be titled Weekly Ad Uncoiling. The first issue of their magazine is just out. The wild content includes an exclusive excerpt from science-fiction author Samuel R. Delany's forthcoming novel, and genital origami—close-up pics of a male to female transsexual's manufactured vagina, a "Neovagina." It's an interesting read, pick up a copy.update: a comprehensive review of the issue on Gawker Media's sci-fi site io9 here.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

copyranter gets pleasured by IFC's Lunchbox.

Last week, Jon Gabrus of the Independent Film Channel's daily Lunchbox Web series, gave me some satisfying video love. Click here to watch. Btw, I didn't tear him "a new taint" because he was obviously fishing for ranting.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

copyranter has gone fishing for money.

UPDATE: I will post in the future to let those of you who care know where else you can find my trainwreck rants. A couple of new opportunities have already been pitched to me.I'm done posting on copyranter for the foreseeable future, mainly because I'm tired of providing free content for dozens of other big name Sites. I'll still be posting on Animal New York at least once every weekday. Please don't ask me to reconsider/tell me you love/hate me in the comments; we already went through that once. However, my ad hunting/destroying skills are still available in column form for a weekly/monthly fee. But my daily blog-posting allegiance is with Animal New York. I'm also open to restarting copyranter (I own all the domain names) if you want to sponsor me. Just FYI: In about two years, I took my blog from nowhere to one of the top five or so ad blogs in the world—averaging over 100,000 page views a week—with praise from Slate, the Globe And Mail, Coilhouse, IFC, etc, etc. If you're interested, email me: copyranter(at)gmail(dot)com

Friday, September 05, 2008

(click image for closer look)To promote Sky TV's airing of the Judd Apatow hit comedy, ad agency DDB New Zealand created an A+ gold star blue ribbon-winning science project diorama. They actually collected a bunch of tadpoles from a pond, turned a shopping mall poster stand into a fish tank, placed a human egg model filled with fish food inside the tank, and then let nature takes its course. It's about the best film promotion stunt I can remember seeing. The Kiwis have shown—again and again—their superiority over Hollywood when it comes to American movie advertising. (via, where you can view a video of the making of the installation.) similar image: Chinese Viagra print ad.

"I call architecture frozen music."—Goethe

(click ad for closer look)"So, it's agreed. we're calling our building TEMPO.""Yeah.""OK, so let's stick an iPod in the layout.""What?""An iPod. The click wheel'll be the O in TEMPO. And we'll put the rendering in the screen.""Eh, Apple might have a problem with that.""We'll change it a little.""Are we giving away iPods?""No."(scanned from last Sunday's New York Times. go here for more senseless New York City real estate advertising)

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

copyranter on ANIMAL NY: the Häagen-Dazs Bee-Boys.

Usain Bolt becomes a(n unpaid?) McDonald's Spokes-Speedster?

(click ad for closer look)His secret? McNuggets. Ad out of Israel uses a passage from Time's Website relaying the anecdote that the world's fastest man ate two helpings of the suspect meat—and that's all he ate—before the Beijing Olympics 100m final. Maybe McDonald's chicken is pumped with steroids? Something tells me, later that same day, his feces also set a personal best digestive tract record. If he had added a serving of Mickey D's rockin' finger fries, maybe the two happenings would have coincided? (image via) previous McDonald's posts: promiscuous gays targeted by posters in Boystown Chicago; Big Fat Lie of a nutrition ad features healthiest looking kid on the planet; and Ronald hangs himself.